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"Pickup your troubles in your old kit bag and Smile, Smile, Smile!" was the theme-song of John Gambling. (18)

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Gambling is, according to one's perspective, either a regrettable human vice or a welcome boost to the national economy. (19)

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Economy of expression is something all writers should cultivate if they wish to persuade the public to read their work. (20)

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Work hard ! (2)



{good sentence AC - I was trying for something similar, but you nailed it}


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Hard problems persist. (3)

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Persist to achieve success. (4)


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Success: contentment with one's lot. (5)

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Lot lost his wife to salt. (6)


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Salt is one of several vital nutrients. (7)

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Nutrients are listed outside most products' packaging wrappers (8).


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Wrappers are often unnecessary, and a nuisance when discarded. (9)

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Discarded plastic has become the recyclers bane in the oceans. (10)


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Oceans are important in regulating the temperatures on the Earth's surface. (11)

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Surface temperatures vary highly from the feel's like temperature in polar vortexes (12).


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Vortexes form between tall buildings, causing debris to swirl and raindrops to rise. (13)

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Rise above the woes of the world and glimpse paradise through calmness and meditation. (14)

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Meditation may not give you any deep philosophical insights, but it will alleviate your stress. (15)

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Stress and exercise in moderation are strengthening, but in excess they are likely to be destructive. [16]

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Destructive winds were forecast for many parts of the country, especially northern and western coasts and hills. (17)

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Hills Bros. coffee is going on sale at the A&P; buy one can, get another at half price. (18)

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Price cuts always accompany the always sad situation of bankruptcy procedures or a store closing its doors for good (19).


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Good Friday is one of the most important days in the Christian calendar; many hymns have been written for it. (20)

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It Lives ! (2)


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Lives are precious. (3)

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" Precious", said evil Gollum. (4)

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Gollum - hard act to follow! (5)

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Follow the Leader: a kids' game. (6)


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Game, set and match to the Russian. (7)

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Russian voters tend to admire strong, autocratic leaders. (8)

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Leaders of politics make me want to scream aloud (9).


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Originally Posted by LukeJavan8
Leaders of politics make me want to scream aloud (9).

Aloud thunderclap accompanied the lightning flash and woke me up. (10)

(Of course you're going to tell me that isn't aloud...)

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Up till now, the government has managed to avoid anything disastrous. (11)

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Disastrous accidents can occur when folks drive over Sixty mph in rain. (12)


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Originally Posted by wofahulicodoc
Originally Posted by LukeJavan8
Leaders of politics make me want to scream aloud (9).

Aloud thunderclap accompanied the lightning flash and woke me up. (10)

(Of course you're going to tell me that isn't aloud...)




I don't know: there is the Welsh Choral Group " Only Boys Aloud".


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Rain which falls when the ground temperature is below freezing turns to ice. (13)

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Ice, they say, can be most refreshing in the summertime on a hot day. [14]

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Day One of the Wimbledon tennis championship saw the shock defeats of several big names. (15)

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Names on the front, back and inside pages cheered the patient as his classmates remembered him. (16)


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Him personally I find pretty obnoxious, but a lot of his instrumental music is worth listening to. (17)

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To end a sentence with a preposition is not a grammatical mistake as some misguided pedants have thought. (18)

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